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"His father and Uncle (his fathers only brother) were partners and their property consisted in farms and Distilleries. My brother says their brand of whiskey was a Beare, but I never heard my father say what it was. When my father was eight years of age his father was killed by a tree falling on him. My fathers Uncle, Albert Brown, (I think his name was Charles Albert, but can not say sure) his fathers only brother & partner took entire charge of my father and became his guardian. At the time of his fathers death, there was some money of his fathers loaned to the Government and could not be collected until my father became of age. This money was never collected.
When my father was about nine years old he went out in the woods with a little gun his Uncle had bought him, and got lost and was not found for three nights and
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two days.
A canon that was taken from Norway during the trouble between Norway & Sweden, was in his Uncles yard, this canon was fired to herald the news of my father being found.
He came to America when he was 18 years of age, about the year 1853. His Uncle signed his permit (as he was under age) not realizing what he did until it was done, he tried to persuade my father not to come to America, using the argument that he was heir to all the property he having no children. My father being a spoiled and always having his own way would not listen to reason. His Uncle said, as you will go I never want to see your face in Sweden until you are worth more money in America than you are in Sweden.
This remark hurt my fathers feelings and he said he did not want that money in Sweden."
excerpt from letter written by Mary Brown Cummins

Birth

20 Sep 1807

Jämshög, Blekinge Län, Sweden

Father	Jöns Torstenberg (1781 - 1841)
Mother	Elna Eskilsdotter (1777 - 1852)
Sibling	Magnus Torstenberg (1810 - 1867)
Sibling	Johan Jönsson Torstenberg (1814 - )
Sibling	Sven Torstenberg (1817 - )